quarrelsomeness

As between adults, we find a general quarrelsomeness which makes political reform as impossible to most Englishmen as to hogs.

It was not unfitting that so quarrelsome a man as Pope should have been the occasion of so much quarrelsomeness in others.

It begins with the allegory of the two Strifes, who stand for wholesome Emulation and Quarrelsomeness respectively.

So too, the proverbial quarrelsomeness of tennis-playing women results from the combative habit of mind.

For nothing stimulates the snarling quarrelsomeness of human beings more than the sight of food or the fear of imposition.